Stocking holder for embroidery machines



Patented Dec. 16, 1924.

UNIT-lain STATES s i,519,s33

PATENT onu-flor.

ALBERT HAGER ANT) PAUL SEHRIG, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

sTocKrNe HOLDER RoR EMBROIDERY MAGHINES.

Application led August 8, 1922.

To all whom t may concern.'

, Be it llmown that we, ALBERT HAGER and PAUL SEHRIG, both citizens of the United States, and residents of West Hoboken, in

the county of Hudson and State of Newv n Jersey, have invented a certain newa-and usel ful lmprovement in Stocking Holders for Embroidery Machines, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to a stocking supporting device for embroidery machines and has for its primary object to provide a Y very simply constructed device of this character which will support or ho a completed stocking in open tubular orm while it is being embroidered.

Heretofore, in the operation of automatic embroidery machines of that type wherein a plurality `of stockings or like articles are simultaneously embroidered, the position of the stocking material relative to the needles being controlled by means .of a pantograph mechanism, the embroidery is applied while the stocking is in an intermediate stage of its manufacture, or in otherl words, when it isv in the form ofa flat single thickness of material. By means of the present invention, it is possible to first complete the manufacture of the stocking and then subsequently, with the stocking supported in tubular form, apply the ornamental embroidery in the. desired design to one side thereof.

sone exemplication of our present invention, we have 'selected a very simple and practical construction of the stocking holder or supporter. Briefly, the same conslsts of an elongated tubular sheet metal structure open upon one side and provided with means at one end whereby the holder or supporter can be conveniently mounted upon an actuator bar whereby theholder is manipulated relative to the needle .in the execution of the design.' Within the4 stocking supporter a shuttle holder is positioned, the needle operating at the open side of the holder in cooperative relation with the reciprocating shuttle so as to properlylform the thread stitches through the stocking material. y

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved stocking holder or supporter, and .in the form, construction and relative arrangement of its several parts as will be hereinafter more' fully described, illustrated in the serialv nu. 580,394.

`ing supporter, the shuttle holder beingillustrated in dotted lines A Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 2 2 of Figurel; and

Figurev 3 is a section taken on the line 3-34of Figure l.

The device as illustrated in the accompanying drawing is preferably, though not necessarily, formed from sheet metal and may be conveniently produced in a single stamplng operation to provide a rear or back wall 5, and longitudinally extending parts throughout obliquely arranged parallel side walls of different lengths connected by an end wall 7. rlhe free edges of the walls 6 and 7 are preferably vturned inwardly to provide the reinforcing bead 8. rllhe wall 7, which, when the device is in use, is located at the upper end of the holder, may be of any desired shape or form and at the opposite end of the holder the reinforced edges of the side walls 6 are connected and braced by meansl of a cross strap 9. The lowervend edge of the rear wall l5 is disposed at an oblique angle with respect to the side walls 6 and the brace bar or strap 9 is disposed in parallel relation therewith.' To this low^ er end of the rear wall 5 spaced supporting plus 10 are rigidly fixed andare adapted to be engaged in sockets in an actuator bar of the embroidery machine (not shown) or vention, it is not herein disclosed. For the f purposes of this explanation, it will suffice to state that one of said needles is located at the open side of each of the stocking holderation of the device will `be obvious.

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Itis accordingly to be understood that while we have lherein described our present ers or supporters and co-operates with a reciprocating thread carrying shuttle of conventional design which is mounted in the shuttle holder 12 arranged upon the upper end of the rod or support 13 extending longitudinally within the stocking holder.`

From the foregoing description, the Olp- T e stocking is first stretched downwardly over and upon the'holder or supporter with the side thereof to whichthe embroidery is to be applied extending over the open side of the holder. The holder or support mainitains the stocking material perfectly smooth .and without wrinkles. After each .one of the battery ofl holders has been supplied with a'stocking, in the operation of thel machine, these holders are shifted relative to the associated series of needles l1. which are simultaneously actuated and reciprocate back and forth through the stocking material', said needles with their threads being s upplied with thread by the reciprocating shuttles in the well known manner whereby the embroidery stitches are proper'- ly formed in the material to produce the preconceived design.

By the use of our present invention it will be seen that the application of clock.- work orembroidery to stockings may be accurately executed after the manufacture of the stocking itself has been fully comdevice in more or less detail,"it may in cer- -tam instances, be found deslrabl'e to convstruct the stocking supporter orl -holder in elongated hosiery supporting member hav-v other forms, shapes and sizes. It is, therefore, to be understood that as the invention may be incorporated in other alternative structures, we reserve the privilege of resorting ,to all such legitimate changes or modifications therein as may be fairly embodied within the'spirit .and scope of the inventionas claimed.

We claim:

1. In combination with a needle and shuttle holder of an embroidery machine, an

elongated hosiery supporting member hav ing a back wall, marginal side walls, an end wall, and an open front, said back wall b e.- 'ing provided with means whereby Said member may be mounted on vav movable part of the machine with a shuttle holder disposed between said-'marginal side walls, said member being adapted to support hosiery in tubular form with one side thereof extending over the open front of said member between die;

2. In combination tle holder of an embroidery machine, an

end relative to its lateral margins and prothe shuttle holder andl the nee-A with a needle` andy shutv.

ing a back wall, marginal side walls, an end c5 able partof the machine with a shuttle holder disposed between said marginal side walls and a re-enforcing connection extending between the longitudinal edges of said side walls at one end of the supporting member, said member being adapted to support hosiery in tubular form with one side thereof extending over the open front of said member between the shuttle holder and the needle.

3. In 4combinationwith the stitching mechanism of an embroidery machine, a detachable-"stretcher frame having a back wall, an end wall and side walls extending laterally from the back wall, forming an open front, and supporting means connected with one end of said frame.

4. An embroidery frame for nished hosiery having a back, an end wall, and

side walls extending laterally from saidl back, forming an open front, and supporting means connected with one end of said frame. p Y p Y 5. An'embroidery .frame for finished hosiery having a back, ain end wall,and side walls of unequal length extendinglaterally from said back, forming an open front, and supporting means. connected with one end of said frame. y

6. An embroidery frame for finished hosiery having a back inclined at its lower u vided with supporting pins, an end wall and side walls extending laterally from said back, forming an open front, and a cross bar connecting the lower outer margins of. said side walls in parallel relation with the lower margin of said back. f 7. An embroidery frame .for finished hosiery, comprisingan obliquely arranged back having laterally extending side walls of unequal lengths and having a horizon- 1,10

tally arranged lower endand an obliquely arranged upper end'and Supporting pinsI carried by the 4horizontally arranged lower end. v

' 8. An embroidery frame for finished hosiery, comprising a back obliquely arranged and having laterally extending sidea walls of unequal lengths forming-a frame with an open obliquely. arranged front, said frame havingv a horizontally arranged .lower end and an obliquely arranged upper end and supporting pins carried by thexhori- .zontally arranged lower end.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention, wehave signed our names 1 hereunder.

ALBERT `IIAGER. PAUL SEI-IRIG. 

